So whence should he recruit, the Gerhard Schroder administration?

Interesting piece by Karen Tumulty and Massimo Calabresi of Time on Obama's early moves. This graf strikes me:

However smart it might ultimately prove to be, the Clinton offer is likely to induce grumbling among some Obama loyalists. The job Obama dangled in front of Clinton has excited a frenzy of speculation and leaking — exactly the kind of thing the no-drama Obama operation did not tolerate during the presidential campaign. And coming amid word that Obama is eyeing an array of former Clinton officials — including former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder for the top job at Justice — even Democrats began to ask how much change Obama really represents. "What were the last two years all about?" asks one exasperated party strategist. "The restoration of the Clintons?"

There are reasons to be cool to the idea of HRC as SoS, which I myself am as you know. But as for Holder and people like Peter Orszag, another Clinton administration official...well, if Obama wants people with some experience in a Democratic presidential administration, where else is he going to find them? The Clinton administration is the only one. Okay, Carter, but that's going back a ways. People who were 35-year-old deputy assistants then are past retirement age now.

As Barry Goldwater so memorably put it, you have to go hunting where the ducks are.